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 Saturday, July 26, 2008
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Tip of the Day Articles: Heating and Cooling
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Air Conditioner Ready?
Cool advice.
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Air Conditioner Tips
How to keep your cool when the mercury registers hot, hot, hot!
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Air Conditioner Tune-up
Two important things to do to help you keep your summer cool.
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Air Conditioner Woes?
Here's a "no-go" checklist that just might save a call to the repairman!
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Air Conditioning Tune-up
Air conditioner inspections and maintenance off-season and when it's hot will help you keep your cool when it's not.
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Air-conditioned "Dog Days"
Today's high-efficiency air conditioners with a federal "energy-star" designation use half the energy a 20-year-old model uses.
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Air-conditioner Maintenance
When temperatures soar, we all too often find the air conditioning wanting.
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Air-conditioning Reality Check
For home air conditioners, 60 F or below means "no go."
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Balanced Central Heating
A furnace operates best with all dampers open. This allows maximum air flow.
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Buying Air Conditioning
This cool BTU formula will determine what's necessary to air-condition your home.
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Carbon Monoxide Is No Joke
Nitrous oxide is "laughing gas", but some gases aren't so funny!
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Ceiling Fans -- (Spin it Again, Sam)
Decorative ceiling paddle fans heat, cool and dry up a room. What's more, they save money on energy and utility bills.
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Changing Times / More Stuff!
"Spring forward and fall Back" reminders.
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Checking Out the Home's Heating System
Many local utility companies will check your heating system at no charge.
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Combatting "Dry-home Syndrome"
One of the most effective methods of dealing with the "dry-home syndrome" is use of a whole-house humidifier.
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Cool Summer: To Be or Not to Be?
Keep your air conditioner clean and well-lubricated, and you'll have relief all season long.
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Cool Tips for Beating the Heat
Cool stuff you can do to your house to make it cool or cozy, while saving money at the same time.
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Cooling It Down
Operation of an air-conditioning system is a lot like an automobile; efficiency depends largely on the way it's maintained and operated.
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Don't Get Steamed... Get Steam
When steam vents get clogged, drain water from the reservoir and refill it with white vinegar.
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Duct tape for air ducts?
Sealing air ducts?increases comfort?and helps save energy bucks?
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Ductwork Booster Fans
With average skills you can stop the chills.
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Dust Control Patrol
Your best dust defense is to launch a strong offense!
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Electric-oven Heating Elements
A busted oven and cookie deprivation can make a DIYer out of you!
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Fan of Saving Money?
Getting a new forced-air furnace for your house? Here's what to do before they haul the old one away!
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Filter Tip
Fall's here and winter's just around the corner...time to think about filters!
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Fireplace Doors
We all love sitting around a big cozy fire... but could that be sending your heating bill higher?
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Freshen Up Furnace Ducts
A central-heating tip that will leave your home smelling like a fresh, spring day.
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Furnace filter time
Things you can do to improve? the household air that you move?
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Furnace Filter Time (Again?)
It may be time to do it again if you want to keep your furnace fit and trim!
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Furnace Servicing
Help for furnaces that cycle on and off, all day, every day, for months at a time.
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Get Musty Furnace Ducts Smelling Fresh Again
A sweet-smelling home can be yours.
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Heating Tips & Saving Money
Dont heat the whole house when you just want a warm room...
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Heating/Cooling Rating Numbers
Learn how HVAC ratings... are the key to energy "savings!"
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High-efficiency Furnaces
High-efficiency furnaces will treat you right if you remember to check their drains once or twice each season.
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High-velocity / Mini-air-duct HVAC
Want to add forced-air HVAC without major hassle? Now you can.
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Home Heating System Tune-Up
Inspect your air-conditioning- and heating systems before the temperature changes!
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Houseplant Humidifier
How to put back some humidity with a bit of nature's greenery.
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Installing a Decorative Ceiling Fan
Ceiling fans can cool, warm and dry out your home -- and add elegance.
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Keep That Air Conditioner Running
A healthy air conditioner is a good health policy.
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Measuring Drafts
You'd be amazed how much fuel a furnace consumes... to warm the air that seeps into your rooms !
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Mid-Winter Furnace Tune-up
Why leave heating to chance?...try "preventive" maintenance instead!
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New Air Conditioner Savings
With energy costs very high, now is an excellent time to beat the heat and to beat high energy bills.
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New High-efficiency Furnace?
What you should do... if it leaves only one "orphaned" appliance using a flue.
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New Spin on Saving
Ceiling fans win new fans with year-round energy-efficient, money-saving heating and cooling!
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Pilot Lowdown
Newer model furnaces have no pilot light; instead, they use spark igniters that come on only when burners need to light.
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Plan for Chilly Days Ahead
A wake-up call for buttoning up your home before cold weather comes.
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Portable Heaters -- A Room At A Time
Portable electric heaters can save you money in certain circumstances.
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Portable Heaters vs. Whole-house Heat
When winter weather comes, dollar for dollar, nothing beats the cost efficiency of a gas furnace.
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Prepare Your Furnace For Winter and Save
Cold weather means it's time to tune up the home's heating system.
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Re-Sealing Ductwork
How to seal up air ducts...for more comfort?and to save energy bucks!
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Sealing Air ducts
Duct tape or Foil Tape? Learn which is better.
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Smart Thermostats
The smart thermostat is a full-time brain that monitors home heating and cooling.
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Smart Thermostats
The smart thermostat is a full-time brain that monitors home heating and cooling.
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Smart Tips for Cool Nights
Avoid big energy bills during occasional cool spring nights.
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Some Cool Tips on How to Beat the Heat
A shady suggestion.
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The "Spin" on Ceiling Fans
Use correct information to determine correct seasonal ceiling-fan rotation!
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Thermostat Considerations
Installing controls for heating and cooling? Gotta know what you're doing...
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Thermostats: On or Auto?
Wanna know which fan choice to set... and (with "on" or "auto") what you'll get?
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Time to Clean Ducts
Don't let the ducts in your home create a raging in-house science experiment.
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Troubleshooting Thermostats
Is your house too hot or too cool? Here's what to do.
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Upgrade Your Thermostat
Knowledgeable information... on thermostat upgrade installation...
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Zone Heating and Cooling
You wouldn't settle for just one light switch in your home.
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